How to Design Your Own Guitar

🎶 Discover Your Inner Luthier: Design Your Own Guitar with Mark Bailey 🛠️

Why Design Your Own Guitar?

• Personal Fulfillment: Crafting your own guitar design is a deeply satisfying experience. It's not just about making a guitar; it's about understanding the instrument at its core.
• Unique Expression: Guitars can take almost any shape your imagination desires, allowing for truly unique and personal designs.
• Valuable Skillset: Whether you plan to build or simply conceptualize, having a detailed working drawing is essential for both DIY projects or communicating with a professional luthier.
• Rewarding Process: By starting from scratch and making key decisions throughout the design process, you'll end up with a custom guitar drawing that's a testament to your creativity.

Overall Aim

• Begin with a blank canvas and work through each step of the guitar design process, ensuring you make informed choices that will translate into a functional instrument.

Step by Step Guide

• Professional Insight: Mark Bailey, a seasoned professional builder, will lead you through the entire process, providing insights that are both practical and insightful.
• Working Drawing: The course focuses on creating a detailed drawing that is ready to be brought to life, whether by your own hands or those of a skilled luthier.
• Next Steps: The design you create in this course will be the foundation for building your very own guitar in the subsequent "Build Your Own First Guitar" course!

Iterative Learning Experience

• You'll need only a few inexpensive items to start, and the materials from this course can be reused time and again as you refine your design.

Time Investment

• The initial design process might take a couple of hours, but with each iteration, you'll become more efficient and familiar with the nuances of guitar crafting.

What's Included in the Course?

• Comprehensive Instructions: Full guidance on every aspect of designing a solid body electric guitar from scratch.
• Templates Library: Downloadable PDF templates for tracing, which include:
  • Pickup options like single coil, humbucker, and P90.
  • Control cavities and layouts.
  • Tremolo systems such as standard and Floyd Rose.
  • Tuner locations.
  • Neck joint styles: Bolt on, set neck, and neck thru.

Author's Insight

• Demystifying Design: Mark Bailey wrote this course to cut through the myths and confusion often associated with guitar design. It's crafted to help you avoid common pitfalls.

Design Possibilities

• This course specifically covers designing solid body electric guitars, which are easier to approach compared to acoustic, semi-acoustic, or archtop guitars that require additional elements like bracing.

For Left-Handed Designers Too!

• The instructions can be easily adapted for left-handed designs by following the LH notation provided throughout the course, often simply involving flipping the tracing to suit your needs.

Dive into the world of guitar design and creation with Mark Bailey's "How to Design Your Own Guitar" course, where you'll unlock a new realm of musical possibilities and personal satisfaction. 🌟